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Article: Legal developments affecting the selection process.
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- Supervision
- Article date:
- May 1, 1993
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As employers who hire from a population with numerous risk factors, sales managers and retailers have to ensure they are fully aware of legislation and court actions which could have a serious impact on their recruitment and selection process. To that end, you need to know about recent legal decisions. Specifically we are talking about Negligent Hiring suits, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, Discriminatory Interviewing Practices and the need for validation of each step of the employee selection process.
Negligent Hiring Suits
There is a growing body of lawsuits brought to court in which an employer was sued by a person unrelated to the business because an ...